Simply head over to X/Twitter, and you will find AI bros hungrily feeding beloved characters into their newest meatgrinder, and posting inanely about Hollywood being “cooked.” Instead, the AI bros have been marveling at Hailuo 3, released by MiniMax, another player in China’s booming artificial intelligence industry. MiniMax H3 is not available directly to users in the U.S. or the European Union, but this has not stopped it from going viral outside of China through third-party access. That’s not to say ByteDance models are clean. A Seedream 5.0 rendering of ‘Frozen’s Elsa, generated by VN.ai researchersVN.ai did this through a third-party API, meaning the safeguards may not have been as robust as on ByteDance’s own service.